On A Piece Of Silver Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHHIIJ JJJJJ| So the fierce acid licks the silver clean | A |
| Unwonted plain the superscription's seen | A |
| Round the cleared head the metal virgin bright | B |
| Shines a mild Moon to the Sun candle light | B |
| And in these floating stains this evil murk | C |
| All your change crowded moment histories lurk | C |
| Voluble Silverling Dost yield me now | D |
| Your chance illumined record and allow | D |
| Prying of idle eyes you came a boon | E |
| To men as weary as any the weak moon | E |
| Shines on but cheers not you were life in death | F |
| Almost a God to give the prize of breath | F |
| Almost a God to give the prize of joy | G |
| Almost a God but God the veriest toy | G |
| Child's fingers break from death to buy back life | H |
| Turn the keen trouble of grief's eager knife | H |
| Or sense confounded hearts heal of the ancient strife | H |
| O Coin that men have toiled for lacked and mourned | I |
| Sold life for and sold honour won and scorned | I |
| O Coin that oft hast been a spinning Fate | J |
| Yet impotent her bitterness to abate | J |
| O Coin that Love contemns reckoning nought | J |
| But with you ah Love's best is sold and bought | J |
| Heart of the harlot you the Judas blood | J |
| Hell's devils leech on you the Price of God | J |
John Freeman
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